Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first
Ashaant (DOA 45 x 34.5 in.) (significant pigment loss); the second
The Barbarians (DOA 58 x 40 in.); the third
Devils Sword (DOA 38 x 26.5 in.); the fourth
A Matter of Life or Death (DOA 41.5 x 29 in.); the fifth
Princess (DOA 59 x 41 in) (with holes below lettering, unknown accretions to verso); the sixth
Desperado (DOA 57 x 47 in.); the seventh
Underworld (DOA 38.5 x 31 in.); and the eighth
Royal Python (DOA 58 x 45 in.); all are hand painted in colors on a repurposed flour sack, unstretched.
This lot to be sold on day 1, Wednesday, October 3 (Lots 1-948)
Auction by order of the United States Bankruptcy Courts of the Eastern District of North Carolina. All items sold as-is. No returns. All sales final.
From the Complete and Important Collection of NOA Living, Raleigh, North Carolina Beginning in the early 1980s with the availability of VCRs, TVs, and generators, a mobile movie industry boomed in Ghana. Entrepreneurs commissioned local artists to paint eye-catching and colorful advertising for the films. This artistic movement proliferated until the early 1990s when these unique and creative works were replaced by mass produced printed posters.
Good to fair condition - each with creasing, some pigment loss, and rubbing, several with some tears.